STARTED & FINISHED:
Gillman, Melanie. (2017). As the Crow Flies. Chicago: Iron Circus Comics.

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FINISHED:
Snyder, Laurel. (2017). Orphan Island. New York: Walden Pond/HarperCollins.

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STARTED:
Kullab, Samya. (2017). Escape from Syria. Buffalo, NY: Firefly.

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FINISHED: 
Pullman, Philip. (2017). The Book of Dust: Volume One: La Belle Sauvage. New York: Knopf.

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STARTED:
Meloy, Colin. (2017). The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid. New York: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.

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FINISHED:
Alexander, Kwame. (2014). The Crossover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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STARTED:
Sheinkin, Steve. (2014). The Port Chicago 50 : Disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights. New York: Roaring Brook.

[Reading for a mock Newbery...]


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FINISHED: 
Balliett, Blue. (2015). Pieces and players. New York: Scholastic.

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STARTED:
Alexander, Kwame. (2014). The Crossover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[Reading for a mock Newbery...]


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FINISHED:
Spinelli, Jerry. (2013). Hokey Pokey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.


[???  Not my cup of tea... and I'm not sure how many kids would pick this one up because of its ?? nature.  I think that it's just too esoteric for the intended audience.  I mean, a novel about a bunch of kids living in the desert with bicycles that behave like wild stallions??  I appreciate the fact that it's clearly an allegory about growing out of childhood, but I think that a kid would get it even less than I did.]


STARTED:
McAlpine, Gordon. (2013). The tell-tale start: The misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe (Book 1).  New York: Viking.


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FINISHED:
Brosgol, Vera. (2011). Anya's ghost. New York: First Second/Roaring Brook.

[REALLY REALLY liked this one...]

STARTED:
Bruchac, Joseph. (2011). Wolf mark. New York: Tu/Lee & Low.

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FINISHED:
Kinney, Jeff. (2010). Diary of a wimpy kid: the ugly truth. New York: Amulet Books.

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STARTED:
Sherry, Maureen. (2010). Walls within walls. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

[Read an article about this one some time ago and have been intrigued.]

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